They aren't fake. I'm a Master I level Geoguessr (the penultimate competitive ranking) and what the pros can do is very real.
I looked at the image in the post before seeing the answer and would have guessed near San Francisco.
It seems impressive to someone if you haven't played Geoguessr a lot, but you'd be surprised at how much information there is about ___location from an image. The LLMs are just verbalizing what is happening in a few seconds in good player's mind.
I couldn't agree more. It's very impressive. I'm just countering the claim that it might be cheating. Of course, sometimes it might be, but knowing what I know now, it's completely possible.
I looked at the image in the post before seeing the answer and would have guessed near San Francisco.
It seems impressive to someone if you haven't played Geoguessr a lot, but you'd be surprised at how much information there is about ___location from an image. The LLMs are just verbalizing what is happening in a few seconds in good player's mind.